Sir John Franklin

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TQ 5875 SE 9/98

SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE Greenhithe HIGH STREET (north side) Sir John Franklin

(Formerly listed as The White Hart Public House)

II

Circa 1840 but may incorporate earlier core. Two parallel ranges. The front range is the earliest. Two storeys yellow brick, the front stuccoed. Hipped renewed tiled roof. Four C19 sashes. Later weather porch. Rear range of circa 1800 with mid C19 porch. This range has an early C19 fireplace with wheat drop swags.

Sir John Franklin the explorer spent his last night at here before setting off on 19 June 1845 to find the north-west passage, a trip from which he never returned. In 1661 the Sir John Franklin was connected with a notorious murder of a prince of Transylvania by Isaac Jacob and Camirus Kargagi. They drove from Gads Hill the scene of the crime to the Sir John Franklin, then known as the Kings Head in their master's carriage but were caught here and later hung.

Listing NGR: TQ5863075169